relation: https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/14049/ title: Criteria for Proportional Representation creator: Balinski, M.L. creator: Young, H.P. description: We investigate methods to allocate seats in proportional representation systems in terms of several underlying common-sense properties. In particular, the idea of stability is introduced, and the method of Jefferson (or d'Hondt) is characterized. publisher: INFORMS date: 1979-02-01 type: Article type: PeerReviewed identifier: Balinski, M.L. & Young, H.P. (1979). Criteria for Proportional Representation. Operations Research 27 (1) 80-95. 10.1287/opre.27.1.80 . relation: 10.1287/opre.27.1.80 identifier: 10.1287/opre.27.1.80 doi: 10.1287/opre.27.1.80